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January 14, 2020by Patrick jennings 5 Comments

Science will not save us. Not even systems science. What systems science above all reveals about ourselves and the world is that both self and world are wholly unsavable, precisely […]

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Feyerabend, Laruelle

Experimental Procedures for New Ontologies

December 19, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

From Tom Kayzel & Sigmund Bruno Schilpzand. Review essay of: Bruno Latour (ed.), Reset Modernity (2016). Cambridge: MIT Press, 560 pp. In 2013, French philosopher Bruno Latour baffled his growing audience with the […]

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Descola, Harman, Heidegger, Latour, Lovelock, Margulis, Moore, Nietzsche, Sloterdijk

chronotopes of truth: presence, evidence, latency

November 12, 2019by ||| 1 Comment

In this wide-ranging talk (given on April 8, 2014, as part of the Spring 2014 Shulman Lecture Series in Science and the Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center) Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht […]

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Gumbrecht, Heidegger

Climate Change as Ecological Colonialism

April 9, 2019by ||| Leave a comment

Abstract: Climate change is a consequence of a clash between deregulated capitalism and the welfare of mankind deeply entrenched in a capitalist economic system based upon the persistent exploitation of […]

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Upadhyay

The Emergent Patterns of Climate Change

December 27, 2018by ||| 4 Comments

You can’t understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It’s the whole, or it’s nothing. In this talk, Schmidt explains how he studies the big picture of […]

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Ecological Realism as Ontographic Sincerity

September 6, 2018by ||| 19 Comments

Below are some thoughts I had while reflecting on a new paper from Katrina Kolozova available here. This passage in particular set off an avalanche of pondering: In order to circumvent the […]

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Heidegger, Kolozova, Laruelle, Marx

Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance (Paul Rabinow)

October 3, 2017by dmf 4 Comments

here be a classic pdf up for grabs: Assembling Ethics in an Ecology of Ignorance, Paul Rabinow Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), Director […]

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Rabinow

toward an encourageMental-manipulation

October 29, 2015by Void Front Press 8 Comments

Dogen Zenji Dogen relates the words of an old Zen master: “Formerly I used to hit sleeping monks so hard that my fist just about broke. Now I am old […]

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Anarchism & Occupy Wall Street w/ Bray & Schneider

September 16, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

“A presentation by authors Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and Nathan Schneider Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse.”

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Schneider

Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences’

May 29, 2014by dmf Leave a comment

This podcast features Dr Des Fitzgerald  and Dr Felicity Callard  on ‘Experimental Entanglements: Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences’. It was recorded at a Hearing the Voice […]

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Rosenthal on Ontology, Pluralism and Pragmatism

February 4, 2014by ||| 4 Comments

Rosenthal, Sandra B. (2005) ‘The Ontological Grounding of Diversity: A Pragmatic Overview’ in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: The uprootedness of experience from its ontological embeddedness in a natural world […]

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Latour’s ‘What Is the Recommended Dose of Ontological Pluralism for a Safe Anthropological Diplomacy?’

January 28, 2014by dmf 1 Comment

In light of the recent ‘realism v. pluralism’ debates… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U1FbAMEpzQ http://anthem-group.net/2014/01/28/2013-gad-distinguished-lecture-bruno-latour/

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Latour

On Crisis (emergency and new heroism), Jan Verwoert

June 29, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Emergency? Of what kind, where, affecting who? In most recent global history, a number of monumental incidents of a political nature, many of which fall under a larger concept of […]

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Verwoert

Heidegger and the Ecology of Knowing

June 11, 2013by ||| 3 Comments

Levi Bryant has a interesting post up on Heidegger (here), wherein he moves from a damn fine summary of ‘equipmentality’ to a discussion of cognitive blindness (although without reference to […]

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Bryant, Geertz, Haraway, Heidegger, Laruelle

Craftsmanship: Connecting the Physical and the Social

June 10, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

Professor Richard Sennett gave the following talk for Keble College on June 7, 2013: AUDIO: Craftsmanship: Connecting the Physical and the Social Richard Sennett (b.1943) is the Centennial Professor of […]

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Sassen, Sennett

Anthony Stavrianakis on Collaboration and Ontology

June 6, 2013by dmf Leave a comment

The following is a conversation between Gaymon Bennett and anthropologist Anthony Stavrianakis about the Challenge of Collaboration. The conversation took place in a noisy kitchen at Berkeley University Campus. Since […]

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Rabinow

Interview with Paul Rabinow

June 4, 2013by ||| Leave a comment

“I have said in some of the earlier books that anthropology to me is anthropos + logos or logoi, so if you are interested in anthropos which in Greek is […]

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Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger, Latour, Marx, Rabinow

Their good life: Should the state legislate for individual happiness?

June 3, 2013by dmf 7 Comments

‘Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinion about events.’ – Epictetus Some governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Jules Evans asks, ‘Is there a […]

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Epictetus, Socrates

Aristotelian Science versus Pythagorean Science

May 27, 2013by ||| 4 Comments

Originally posted on Researchers Gone Wild:
In this post I will be exploring and elucidating the claim that in the 16th Century the underpinning philosophy of science turned from being…

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Aristotle, Pythagoras

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